Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.
Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.
Wars, the horror of mothers. Bella detesta matribus.
Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace.
What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned.
Golden mean. Auream mediocritatem.
Brave men were living before Agamemnon.
Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
When discord dreadful bursts her brazen bars, And shatters locks to thunder forth her wars.
Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing.
The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants.
Keep quiet. Favete linguis.
The world flies and cannot be recalled.
You are dealing with a work full of dangerous hazard, and you are venturing upon fires overlaid with treacherous ashes.
Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion. Culpam poena premit comes.
Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favorites enjoy.
You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared-for hide, ... a hog from Epicurus's herd.
There is a mean in all things and, moreover, certain limits on either side of which right cannot be found.
The body oppressed by excesses, bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine Spirit we had been endowed with.
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
Splendidly false. Splendide mendax.
I shall not altogether die.
Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.
They change the sky, not their soul, who run across the sea. Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief. Si vis me flere, dolendum est Primum ipsi tibi.
For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughed at, than that which he approves and than that which he approves and reveres.
Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.
Happy and thrice happy are they who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day.
He's happy who, far away from business, like the races of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay.
Poetry is like painting.
He who has begun his task has half done it begin.
It is sweet and glorious to die for one's country. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
One must avoid that wicked temptress Laziness. Vitanda est improba siren desidia.
He who feared he would not succeed sat still. Sedit qui timuit ne non succederet.
Humble things become the humble.
I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning.
I am not what I was when dear Cinara was my queen.
In the consulship of Plancus. Consule Planco.
What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed.
A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.
Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness.
That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
The covetous man is ever in want.
Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities.
It is sweet to relax at the proper time. Dulce est desipere in loco.
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and the beginning of wisdom is to have got rid of folly.
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.
What forbids a laughing man from telling the truth Ridentem dicere verum quid vetat.
Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour.
A well-prepared mind hopes in adversity And fears in prosperity.
Alas, the fleeting years slip by. Eheu fugaces labuntur anni.
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